Highlight • Historical Site
Abandoned Village of Lopau
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March 24, 2019
Cycling
Words like "ghost village" or "lapsed" are circulating on the Internet, which is no longer the case and you can easily see it in the pictures. The remaining houses and courtyards appear very well maintained.
Otherwise...the village was actually first mentioned in 1293 and it wasn't until 1983 that the last steadfast residents left the village!
Now it is used and maintained by the Bundeswehr
•February 20, 2020
Hiking
Lots of exciting things to discover.
•March 15, 2017
Hiking
The village was first mentioned in 1293; at that time it consisted of three farmsteads. In 1895, the industrialist Richard Toepffer acquired the "Aevermannschen Hof", a heath …
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Elevation 110 m
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